Kittsteiner Blog

Category: Apple

  • Why something new?

    Every so often, I read and hear that Apple is no more innovative because the devices look always the same (not the only reason, but let’s focus on this).

    I just don’t get why. Why it needs to change? I’m not against new, I’m just happy with my devices. iPhone: it works fine, would even love to get back in time where an iPhone could still stand on the table without help. MacBook: I love the design, why bother with something new, just for the sake of something new? We’ve seen where this ended with Liquid Glass …

    (This is no rant, I’m actually curious what thrives the people.)

  • Migrated away from Audible

    I used to use Audible, because it was convenient and cheap for single audiobooks. Now, I migrated away from it by using Libation – a great project to download Audible content – Jellyfin for managing the audiobooks, and BookPlayer on iOS, the latter came through a suggestion from @simon@dewp.space.

    Absolutely recommended. Especially the app is so much faster than Audible, which takes ages to even display anything. And way less battery-consuming.

  • Automatically synchronize documents with Paperless-ngx on macOS

    On the one hand, I use a rather classic local file structure to manage my documents, but also use Paperless-ngx to manage them (and especially for search). Thus, I want to keep my local structure, but also automatically upload the documents in Paperless-ngx.

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  • tmutil parameters

    TIL: tmutil delete allows to add the -t parameter multiple times to delete multiple (old) backups at once:

    sudo tmutil delete -d /Volumes/Backups\ of\ Matzes\ M1\ Pro -t 2025-04-13-215640 -t 2025-04-21-095453 -t 2025-04-28-151733Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

    Before, I used multiple commands (since I delete the oldest 4 backups every 6 months manually) and always waited for the next command until the previous one was done …

  • Tried to disable Apple Intelligence

    Since Apple Intelligence is now also available in Germany, I directly tried to disable it. Turns out: my iPhone is not even supported. 😂